Word: franticness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Ships appeared heading westward under a frantic head of steam, evidently trying to get away from Kiukiang before we could get there. A great ocean freighter went past under our wings. By now the boats were growing thicker. Great patches in the river seemed alive. We grew tense in our seats watching for the target, watching for rising planes, watching for ack-ack fire, peering up into the sky above us for Japanese Zeros...
...other ways the parallel fails. The Japs are far more afraid of Korea than the Nazis are of Austria. To the Japanese, the Koreans are "inscrutable," as the Japanese themselves are to westerners. Ever since Japan took Korea in 1904, its Korean policy has wavered between uneasy placating and frantic terrorism. Grapevine news reaching the Korean National Front Federation in the U.S. last week showed quite clearly that Japan, however busy it might be elsewhere, could not turn its back on inscrutable Korea for a moment...
...Ryukaku swerved into a frantic, leftward circle to dodge the U.S. bombs. The maneuver failed. So did the efforts of the cruisers, firing shells into the water ahead of low-flying torpedo-planes, hoping they would fly into the geysers. Bombs ripped into the Ryukaku, mantling her decks in smoke and flame. A gun mount soared lazily upward, curved overside into the sea. Then the torpedoes struck home, squarely amidships. Later the Navy said that at least 15 bombs and ten torpedoes hit the Jap ship. The Ryukaku had completed her third circle when she sank, with most...
...close to the West Coast-or to the Panama Canal or to Alaska-and take revenge. The Germans could do something similar to the East Coast. The people could only hope that the U.S. defenses were better than Tokyo's-and that the people would not be as frantic as Tokyo's civilians...
John is a lawyer and Ray a sea-captain and Paulette doesn't know which she prefers, so she lets a giant squid decide for her in a climactic undersea-fight to end all undersea fights. The music gets much more frantic at this point, but it hardly matters since we know that Wayne, having sinned, must perish...